Saturday, March 20, 2010

Fathers & Sons : Specificity

Niteowl: you played table top games with your dad?Nicene Creed Robot: our bonding took superglueNicene Creed Robot: we are second gen nerdJDHarper: Dad and I played chess and checkers and uno and all those other traditional gamesNiteowl: the only thing i did with my dad were clear weeds off a rather steep embankment, mow the lawn, rake the leaves, transplant shrubs and trees, trim the massive hedge of hedginess, shovel gravel, and clean the gutterNiteowl: and when i say 'with', i mean, he told us to do it and my brothers and i did itspruce: are you going to overcompensate with your son, niteowl?spruce: come on, son, your old man can play hopscotch, too!Niteowl: no, imma work him harderNiteowl: warm feelings are not meant to be between father and sonCyrano: look what turning that wheel did for Conan.Niteowl: overt feelings of hostility, betrayal, judgement, distaste and disappointment, maybe.spruce: but pressure him into taking some weirdly specific and not very profitable career, niteowlspruce: telephone sanitizer, bowling ball auto-buffer attendentJDHarper: really, anything in the bowling industry will workNiteowl: that goes without sayingJDHarper: pinsetter repairmanNiteowl: i'll spend a fortune on lessons just for that jobNiteowl: or likecheesoning: ball patcherNiteowl: 5. 1/4" floppy drive installerspruce: VCR repairmanNicene Creed Robot: reel to reelNicene Creed Robot: aim higherCyrano: laserdisk repairmanNicene Creed Robot: punch card organizerspruce: pretty much any career Sally Struthers would coax you to train in.Cyrano: gun repair!cheesoning: 1-ton, 5 MB hard drive mover.Cyrano: wait, you don't want him knowing how to use guns...Nicene Creed Robot: he would rule canida with that the knowledge of gunsJDHarper: mounties ride away in terrorNicene Creed Robot: i think that was the third tree in EdenNicene Creed Robot: tree of the knowledge of guns